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Quote of the Day: Percy Sutton on Ideas
Read more about Percy Sutton here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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What If Miriam Carey Had Been White?
Writing at Ebony magazine, Tanya Steele wonders if Miriam Carey, the woman who tried to drive through a barrier near the White House last week, would have been fatally shot if she had been white. Steele says the incident sheds light on how African-American women with mental illness are perceived in America. So, I know how Miriam Carey…
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Lauryn Hill: On Her Own Terms
Everyone should cut Lauryn Hill some slack, Alexandra Phanor-Faury writes at Ebony magazine. The singer is making culturally relevant music and working at a comfortable, healthy pace. While she may be free from captivity today, Hill was always free-minded. Carving out her own path sans regard to public opinion was her constant modus operandi. While many…
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How White Rage Led to the Federal Shutdown
A “small group of congressman who represent a lily-white, neo-Confederate nation” have caused the government shutdown, writes Andrew O’Hehir at Salon magazine. Their frustration can be attributed to a “white rage and white derangement” about America’s changing racial landscape. Statistics and recent electoral history paint a deceptive picture of an increasingly diverse society that mostly…
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Why Obama Is Winning the Shutdown Fight
(The Root) — Thanks to Charlie Sheen, “winning” has now become more than just a word to describe what happens when one team dominates another in a sports arena. It has become a shorthand to describe when someone is flying high in life or at least thinks he is. For this reason, the use of…
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Were There ‘Mulatto’ Slave Traders?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…
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A Jazz Man Considers 'Musical Genocide'
(The Root) — When was the last time the culture produced a great black male jazz singer? To be sure, there is no shortage of contemporary black female jazz vocalists — Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson and Lizz Wright, to name just a few — all at the peak (or close to, in Wright’s case) of…
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Quote of the Day: Alain Locke on Black Expression
Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Scholars of Color Working in Isolation
(The Root) — Remember the name Maurice Green — not the Olympic sprinter, but the energetic young scholar who founded the International Black Doctoral Network Association Inc. The newly minted group just completed its first convention in Philadelphia, drawing 400 black Ph.D.s and doctoral candidates from a wide variety of disciplines to network, present papers…
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Gun Violence's No. 1 Target: Black Children
(The Root) — In the weeks since the Washington Navy Yard shooting, the city of New Orleans reached a tragic milestone. All told, 108 people have been murdered in the Crescent City so far this year. In September two black girls, one 11 years old and the other age 2, were shot and killed. And…
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